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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

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I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or a conviction, except out of pu...more

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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as ...more

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At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the...more

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Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that strange night she kept her own s...more

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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against th...more

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You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick ...more

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St. John's eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom. He seemed to use them rather as instruments to ...more

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And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, ...more

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We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought.